5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 21, 9:45 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1045 AM EDT THU JUL 21 2005 .UPDATE... FORECAST APPEARS ON TRACK. EXPECT FAIRLY HIGH COVERAGE OF TSRA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS WILL AGAIN BRIEFLY APPROACH OR JUST MEET SVR CRITERIA. TEMPS NOT RUNNING TOO MUCH HIGHER THAN THIS TIME YESTERDAY...PERHAPS SHAVING A DEGREE OR TWO OFF OF EXPECTED MAX TEMPS. WILL WAIT TO SEE WHAT TSRA AND CLOUD COVERAGE LOOKS LIKE AROUND MIDDAY BEFORE MODIFYING. 06Z GUIDANCE STILL INDICATING SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPS THAN YESTERDAY. NEW MODELS STILL HAS A WEAK FRONT MOVING THROUGH FRIDAY WITH DRIER AIR ALOFT FILTERING IN BEHIND IT AS THE UPPER RIDGE ALSO BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. HAVE SOME DOUBT ON JUST HOW DRY IT WILL GET OR HOW MUCH SUBSIDENCE IT WILL TAKE TO REMOVE COPIOUS MOISTURE. WE HAD A LOT OF RAIN THIS MONTH. AT ATL...WE ONLY NEED ABOUT 3 MORE INCHES TO BREAK THE 1994 RECORD (T.S. ALBERTO) OF 17.71 FOR THE MONTH OF JULY. SNELSON && .SHORT TERM... MOIST UNSTABLE AIR MASS CONTINUES OVER THE FFC CWA WITH WEAK HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE. MAIN UPPER HIGH STILL OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL PORTION OF NATION WITH A MORE OR LESS NORTHERLY UPPER LEVEL FLOW OVER GEORGIA. RIPPLES MOVING IN THIS FLOW SHOULD ENHANCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANOTHER SHORT WAVE APPEARS TO MOVE ACROSS AREA ON FRIDAY BUT GFS SUGGEST MOISTURE (PW VALUES) WILL NOT BE QUITE AS HIGH ON FRIDAY. SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY WITH CAPES 1500 TO 2000 TODAY. THEREFORE WILL SHOW FAIRLY HIGH POPS TODAY IN THE LIKELY CATEGORY FOR MUCH OF NORTH GEORGIA BUT WILL ONLY GO FOR A CHANCE ON FRIDAY. AGAIN SOME SPOTS OF HEAVY RAIN LIKELY IN ADDITION TO A GOOD AMOUNT OF LIGHTNING AND SOME GUSTY WINDS. TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN REACH THE LOW TO MID 90S FOR MUCH OF THE AREA AND HEAT INDICES IN MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MAKE IT TO BETWEEN 100 AND 105 THIS AFTERNOON. .LONG TERM... THE GFS CONTINUES TREND OF MOVING THE UPPER HIGH PRESSURE AREA CURRENTLY OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE NATION INTO THE SOUTHEAST OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO THE FIRST OF NEXT WEEK. SUBSIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS HIGH SHOULD LEAD TO SOME DRYING IN THE MID TO UPPER LEVELS AND HOTTER TEMPERATURES. LOOKS LIKE MUCH OF THE CWA WILL SEE TEMPERATURES REACHING THE LOW TO MID 90S WITH SOME UPPER 90S OVER CENTRAL SECTIONS. A TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE CENTRAL PART OF THE NATION MID WEEK MAY BREAK THE HIGH DOWN SOMEWHAT AND ALLOW A BETTER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE CWA AGAIN LATER IN THE WEEK. && .AVIATION... CEILING POTENTIAL IN THE 3000-5000 FT RANGE LATER THIS MORNING INTO AFTERNOON. POTENTIAL FOR IFR CEILINGS RATHER LOW AND WILL NOT FORECAST CEILINGS THAT LOW UNLESS OBS SUGGEST OTHERWISE. AFTERNOON CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL CAUSE CEILINGS AT MANY LEVELS. PATCHY MORNING FOG AND HAZE WITH BRIEF IFR CONDITIONS. EXPECTING CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO FLARE UP FROM 18-00Z. WITH SURFACE TROUGH EXPECTED TO DEVELOP INTO CENTRAL GA...SURFACE WINDS SHOULD BECOME GENERALLY W LESS THAN 10 KTS. BDL && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ATLANTA 92 74 93 75 / 60 40 30 20 ATHENS 91 72 96 72 / 60 40 30 20 GAINESVILLE 89 72 92 72 / 60 40 30 20 ROME 94 72 97 71 / 60 40 30 20 COLUMBUS 93 75 95 76 / 60 40 40 20 MACON 95 74 96 74 / 40 30 30 20 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. && 38
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 500 AM EDT THU JUL 21 2005 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-220900- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA-CRAWFORD- CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DE KALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL-FANNIN-FAYETTE- FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE-GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK- HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON- JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON-MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE- MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY-MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE- OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH-PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE- SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON-SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR- TELFAIR-TOOMBS-TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON- WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES- WILKINSON- 500 AM EDT THU JUL 21 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. ...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .SYNOPSIS... BROAD WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE GULF COAST STATES. A SURFACE TROUGH WILL DEVELOP OVER THE CAROLINAS INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TONIGHT. A TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION. .PRIMARY HAZARD... THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DISCUSSION... A MOIST AIRMASS WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. CAPES WILL INCREASE 1500 TO 2000 WITH LIFTED INDICES AROUND -4. WEAK WINDS ALOFT WILL INHIBIT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE STORMS...BUT SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH. THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. EXCESSIVE HEAT MAY BECOME A PROBLEM WITH HEAT INDICES OF 105 OR GREATER INCREASING OVER THE AREA. && FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV...AND CLICK ON GEORGIA. BDL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 209 PM EDT THU JUL 21 2005 GAZ056-068-211845- 209 PM EDT THU JUL 21 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN IN PIKE AND SPALDING COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM EDT... AT 207 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WILLIAMSON...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN SPALDING AND NORTHERN PIKE COUNTIES. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ROVER. HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE SOME BRIEF STREET FLOODING. THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN OR MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY AROUND 245 PM EDT.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 221 PM EDT THU JUL 21 2005 GAZ019-211845- 221 PM EDT THU JUL 21 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN IN FLOYD COUNTY UNTIL 245 PM EDT... AT 217 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF COOSA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTION OF FLOYD COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN OR MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY BY 245 PM EDT.
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:57 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The public reported that several trees were down between Coosa and Horseleg Creek, southwest of Rome. Some trees were down on Black Bluff Road as well.
The Forest Park Police reported that two trees were blown down between Forrest Park and Morrow and the Clayton County 911 Center reported that one tree was blown down in Jonesboro.
The Daily Herald of McDonough reported that lightning set fires to 13 homes and structures in the county. Most of the damage was confined to roofs and attics of the homes. However, one structure was completely destroyed.
The News Daily of Jonesboro reported that lightning struck several transformers in the area leaving up to 20,000 residents without power. In addition, lightning struck a tree causing it to splinter and send debris scattering in all directions from the site.
An employee of Fox 5 TV in Atlanta reported pea to quarter-sized hail.
The Fayette County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees were blown down in the northeast part of the county.
The public reported that an apparent microburst or downburst from a small, yet strong thunderstorm blew down five large trees causing damage to one home. A bedroom window was broken and a workshop detached from the house was flattened. The downed trees were at least 100 years old.
The public reported that thunderstorm winds had caused extensive damage to trees and power lines in the Green Acre subdivision just southeast of Athens. Numerous trees and power lines were down. Damage was also reported at a Kroger store where the building's sign was damaged and several shopping carts were blown onto cars parked in the parking lot, causing damage to the vehicles. At least 600 residents in the county were left without power during the thunderstorm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, July 2005
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5467985, 5467986, 5468431, 5468195, 5468191, 5468192, 5468194, 5468193.